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Nigerian Egg Pepper Soup

A spicy soup made with eggs, bell peppers, onions, garlic, tomatoes, and broth, seasoned with cayenne, paprika, cumin, and coriander.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Nigerian Egg Pepper Soup

2-3
Time3–4 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the soup base

  1. Heat the vegetable oil in a saucepan over medium heat.

  2. Add the chopped onions and minced garlic, and sauté until the onions become translucent and slightly golden.

  3. Add sliced bell peppers and chopped tomatoes to the saucepan.

  4. Cook for a few minutes until the vegetables start to soften.

  5. Add the chicken or vegetable broth to the saucepan with the vegetables.

  6. Stir in the ground cayenne pepper, paprika, cumin, and coriander.

  7. Season with salt to taste.

  8. Bring the mixture to a gentle simmer.

Add the eggs and serve

  1. In a separate bowl, crack the eggs and whisk them until well-beaten. Set aside.

  2. Slowly pour the beaten eggs into the simmering soup, stirring gently with a wooden spoon or spatula in one direction.

  3. Continue cooking the soup for about 3–4 minutes, allowing the egg to cook and thicken the soup slightly.

  4. Taste the soup and adjust the seasoning if needed. Add more salt or spices according to your preference.

  5. Once the soup is ready, remove it from the heat.

  6. Serve hot, garnished with fresh cilantro or parsley if desired.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

485Calories
42 gProtein
24 gFat
26 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Coriandernot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Tomato + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,272 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Clove + cumintop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,306 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Cook into strands that thicken the broth and add body.
Bell peppers
Add sweetness, color, and a soft, vegetal body to the soup.
Tomatoes
Add acidity and moisture that build the base of the soup.
Onion
Adds savory sweetness as it softens and turns golden.
Cayenne pepper
Provides heat that gives the soup its pepper flavor.

The step that matters

Adding the beaten eggs to the simmering soup. If the soup boils hard or the eggs are stirred too vigorously, they can scramble into clumps instead of forming soft ribbons. A gentle simmer and slow pour let the egg set in thin strands that thicken the broth.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, garlic, pepper, tomato, egg, chicken, cumin):

  1. Oreganofits better
  2. Corianderfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, garlic, pepper, tomato, egg, chicken, cumin. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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